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MiniLight

Simple remote controlled light relay.

Changelog

Status: Done, in use.

Date

Comment

2005-05-16

Project created.

About

Simple one channel remote controlled relay for controlling lamps. The lamp toggles on or off using a Philips RC5 remote control (other protocol can easily be added), and which to use is hardcoded into the firmware. After eight hours, the relay are automatically turned off.

Hardware

A 12V 2.6VA transformer and a 5V regulator transform the 230VAC to 5VDC. The controller is a PIC16F876 atttached to a 5V relay and a 38KHz IR-reciver.

Schematics

Minilight schematic.

Minilight PCB.

Firmware

The firmware is written in HI-TECH PICC using MPLAB 7.21. The remote control code is hardcoded into the firmware.

Downloads

Latest source code and schematic/PCB-layout can be found in repository /software/trunk/Embedded/minilight/ and /hardware/trunk/schematics/minilight/ in SVN.

License

All information found on this page are licensed. See the license page for more information.